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The Huttiati JVlirid — What Is It? 




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BY PROF. J. W. MOORE 



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HYPNOTISM; 



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The Human Mind— What Is It? 



PROF. J. V. MOORE. 









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PREFACE 



OUR purpose in writing this course is to 
furnish our readers a plain, practical 
Treatise on How the Mind Can Be Controlled 
by Suggestion. It appears to be very difficult 
for some to understand what is meant by Sug- 
gestion Controlling the Mind. We have at- 
tempted in this course to place this subject 
before our readers in such a manner that they 
may readily comprehend it. 

We heartily endorse the great proposition 
laid down by Thomas J. Hudson, in his great 
work on Psychic Phenomena, that man pos- 
sesses two minds: one designated as the Ob- 
jective Mind, and the other as the Subjective 
Mind; and that the Subjective Mind has full 
control of the functions and conditions of the 
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PROF. J. W. MOORE 



HYPNOTISM. 



In order to bring before the reader a clear idea of 
the power of the mind over the body he should have 
some idea of its limits, capabilities and responsibilities. 
The human mind is designated as the objective and sub- 
jective mind. The objective mind is the result of 
organization of the brain ; the subjective mind is a dis- 
tinct entity, and, when not opposed by the objective 
mind, it controls the five physical senses of the body, 
and for the control and cure of diseases its power is un- 
limited. Hypnotism has been fought by the press for 
the last century, and readers go to them and ask them 
what hypnotism is; and is there no one that can tell 
you what it is? It has been denounced as the work of 
the evil one by the prejudiced, but I ask you, is there 
one who has taken the pains to investigate that has not 
changed his opinion as to the nature of what it is? It 
is a self -induced state, the subject doing more to bring 
on the state than the operator, for no one can be hypno- 
tised against his own will. The subject must put him- 
self in a perfectly passive condition in order to enter the 



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state. Now, a great many will tell you that it is 
dangerous, and that it is harmful. Well, reader, you 
can eat and drink and sleep to your injury. But can 
you tell me of one person that has been injured by enter- 
ing into the state of hypnotism? But can you not count 
them by scores that have become physical wrecks by the 
use of morphine and cocaine? Chloroform is killing hun- 
dreds every year. . But the same persons who have told 
you of the evil effects of hypnotism do not mention the 
results of the deadly drugs that are used indiscrimi- 
nately every day by those who have taken so 
much pains to warn you of the evil effect of hypnotism. 
The successful business man, the lawyer that pleads to 
the jury, all use hypnotism to a more or less degree; 
suggestion is the key-note to hypnotism. Now there 
are three modes of producing hypnosis: First, by sug- 
gestion, passes and bright objects. Did you ever stop 
and think that by telling a thing once that it did not 
have the effect that it would to repeat it? Repetition is 
what fixes any certain thing upon the mind. Now, that 
gives us some idea of the workings of the mind and how 
to control it. Why a bright object will produce hypnosis 
is because it helps to concentrate the mind, and brings 
about a passive condition that is essential to bringing on 
the state. 



WHAT IT IS. 



RESPONSIBILITY 

Of the people in hypnosis: hypnotism does not change 
the fundamental principles of the subject's education. 
A great many people will consent to do and perform a 
great many funny things while under the influence of 
hypnotism, but they never lose their moral sense. The 
animal propensities seem to be under restraint, while 
the intellectual and moral sentiments shine with re- 
newed luster, and the senses of honor and morality are 
elevated. 

HYPNOTISM. 

Hypnotism when properly understood will be em- 
braced by the intelligent masses. When such men as 
John Hunter, Daniel Hacktuke, Prof. Elmer Gates and 
Dr. Pritzer advocate hypnotism as harmless and bene- 
ficial to both mind and body — men that have had years 
of experience and made it a scientific study — should 
they not be good authority, as they thoroughly under- 
stand the human body? 

PERSONAL MAQNETISH. 

Every person possesses more or less magnetism, as 
the reader is well aware that some can sway an audience 
and hold it spell-bound, while others have no influence, 
whatever. Did you, reader, ever pause and think what the 



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cause was? Well, it is this personal magnetism, which 
every person possesses, if they could only utilize the 
force that nature has endowed them with. But before 
you can attain that high degree that some reach you have 
to cultivate; and patience is the price of success. It's 
not learned in one day. But any person starting out 
with the determination to succeed need not fail. So many 
works on personal magnetism are so lengthy and com- 
bined that the reader becomes confused. Now the object 
of the writer of this course is to make it so plain that all 
who strive to reach that degree of magnetism will be suc- 
cessful. Distance cuts no figure. You can control miles 
apart the same as though they were present, but in order 
to control them you must draw a living picture in your 
own mind, and with a fixed determination to control 
them, never allowing anything else to enter your mind. 
And, reader, you will be surprised at the results of your 
own work. 

ANIMAL MAGNETISM. 

A great many writers believe in a nervous fluid 
passing from operator to the subject, which is the most 
reasonable theory, as it is a given up principle that 
downward passes produce hypnosis or mesmeric sleep, 
and all upward passes dispel the same. Now, if such 



WHAT IT IS. 



is the fact, is it not conclusive evidence that there is a 
nervous fluid passes from operator to subject? Now be- 
fore you should tty to put any one to sleep you should 
try some lighter stages of hypnosis, such as locking the 
hands together and making the limbs rigid. But be- 
fore you try any of these above you should give them a 
clear and distinct idea of it; you should impress upon 
their minds that it is harmless and that it does not rep- 
resent a weak will but that a strong will should be more 
susceptible to enter the stage. And further impress 
them that they must put themselves in passive condition 
and concentrate their minds on what you tell them, that 
a wandering mind can not be hypnotised. All this 
should be made perfectly clear before attempting any of 
the above tests. Do not expect to control every one you 
try as some will resist you when they tell you that they 
are not. Remember you must dispel any fear that they 
may have as to it injuring them in testing for suscepti- 
bility. Should you find them hard to relax you will 
then know they will be hard to wake up. And you 
should not make passes nor let them look at bright ob- 
jects, but should put them to sleep by suggestions given 
them that they will wake up when you tell them to. 
Impress that upon their minds when you are putting 
them under the influence. Then you will have no trou- 



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ble to bring them out from under the influence. Never 
wake them up too abruptly. In patients that seem dazed 
when woke up always make dispersive passes to clear 
their heads. Never allow any excited persons in the room 
should you have a patient hard to wake up, as they 
might unduly influence him to remain asleep. In such 
patients that are hard to wake always get a promise from 
them to wake up when you tell them to. Never give 
any suggestions that might make them feel badly. For 
when they are in that state they are in a passive condi- 
tion, ready to receive any suggestions that you may 
make as true. Always go about your work in a busi- 
ness-like manner. Never brag on your abilities. But 
say you can do it, and let your manner and actions be 
such that it will impress upon them that you understand 
your business. 

PARLOR ENTERTAINMENTS. 

Always place the people participating in a circle, and 
then stand out in front of them. And let your eyes take 
in the whole circle so every one will think you are look- 
ing at him. Give them a clear and plain statement of 
what Hypnotism is. Do not try to make the impression 
that you possess a power they do not. Always tell them 
that they could do the same if they only knew how to 




r.IAKINO THE LIMBS RIGID. 



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utilize the forces they were endowed with. Now the 
reader might say, "Suppose that we follow the instruc- 
tions and we fail. Would it not destroy all confidence? ' ' 
Our answer is: "No; any failure to influence or hyp- 
notize should not occasion enough skepticism to prevent 
the success of the future efforts. The fault is in the pa- 
tient and we should not be afraid to make bold and say 
we can and will do it. " Do not under any circumstances 
surround the patient with an air of mystery. 

HOW TO HYPNOTIZE. 

We are now ready with a feeling of earnestness and 
confidence, all of which I show by my expressions and 
behavior. I now ask the patient to clasp his hands to- 
gether and look me in the eye, and at the same time I 
return his look, my eyes centering at the root of his 
nose, or on the organ of individuality. I then tell him 
his hands are sticking fast, and keep repeating the same 
and at the same time make a few downward passes, and 
in a firm voice say, "Now you can't take them apart." 
If they stick together, or I have influenced him to any 
extent, I then try him on a backward test. I have him 
stand up on the floor, feet together, hands by his sides, 
and then ask him to relax every muscle and to close his 
eyes and look, apparently, at an object situated at an 

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angle of forty-five degrees. I then place the index 
finger of the left hand on his forehead, and the index 
finger of the right hand on the back of his head, press- 
ing gently upward, saying in a slow and firm voice, 
"When I take my hand from your head your body will 
follow." I then draw my finger from his head, and in 
most instances the subject will fall backwards. Do not 
under any circumstances let him fall. In the for- 
ward test you have him stand in a relaxed condition, 
placing your right foot at the toes of the patient with 
your left foot about fifteen inches back, with your face 
twenty inches from the patient, and with a firm look at 
the root of the nose. Then put the index finger of the 
right hand within five inches of the nose and ask him 
to look steadily at the point of your finger; then say, 
"Look at my finger, keep your mind on the point of my 
finger, and when I draw it from you, you will follow 
after it. " I then draw it slowly from in front of him, and 
most persons will follow after it. 

MAKING THE LIMBS RIGID. 

Take any person by the right hand and place the 
ball of your thumb on the back of his hand, about an inch 
from the knuckle of the ring finger. Your thumb will 
then be resting firmly on the ulnar nerve. Then let sub- 



WHAT IT IS. 13 



ject place his eyes on yours, as soon as you take his 
hand, and with a determination to influence him return 
his gaze half a minute or more. Tell him to place his 
weight on one limb and make his muscles hard. Then 
tell him his limb is getting stiff, and that he cannot bend 
it. Repeat it several times and make a few passes down 
his limb. Then raise to a standing position, keep your 
eye on his, and say in a firm tone "You can't bend it, 
and you can't bend it. The more you try the stiff er it 
is." Then cause him to make a few steps and his limb 
will be rigid. Remove influence by slapping leg with 
hand and saying "Relax! Wide awake!" Should the 
limb feel queerly for a while make a few upward passes. 
Always remember that upward passes dispel and 
downward passes produce results. 

SLEEP TEST. 

Approach the subject on the right side, rubbing 
hands together a little. Then pick up his hands and 
straighten his arms, placing them down upon front of 
his body, or close by his side. You then say, in a pos- 
itive tone of voice, "Now you are going to enter into a 
quiet sleep. Just relax every muscle, and make your- 
self perfectly passive, and listen to what I say. Keep 
your mind on sleep, and as I talk to you a quiet feeling 



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of sleep will come over you. Your eyes are getting 
heavy; your eyes are getting heavy; your eyes are wa- 
tery; you can't keep them open; sleep is coming, sleep 
is coming. Your eyes are heavy, and you cannot hold 
them open. Sleep is coming." Then when you see 
his eyes are watering and heavy you tell him to close 
them. And then you make some downward passes, and 
keep repeating "Sleep," to him all the time. You will 
find that he is now in a deep sleep and in a receptive 
condition, ready to receive any suggestion you make as 
true. Now if you wish to create any delusion in his 
mind you say to him that when he opens his eyes he 
will see a river or lake. Repeat it to him several times . 
Then have him to open his eyes and make some down- 
ward passes, and say, "Do you. see, do you see it?" 
pointing to the imaginary object. After you get him to 
see it, you can carry him from one scene to another, just 
by telling him that it exists. You can make him be- 
lieve he is an orator: have him make speeches, and 
sing songs, and dance and do anything you suggest to 
him. 

DELUSIONS. 

If you wish to make him believe there is a swarm of 
bees around him tell him they are thick around him and 




PREVENTIG SPEAKING THE NAME. 



WHAT IT IS. 15 



strike a few times, and he will follow you and fight them. 
Never give any suggestion that would be injurious to 
him if he carried it out. Now to bring him out from un- 
der the influence. Clap your hands together right sharply 
and say, "Wide Awake!" If he seems any way dazed 
and his head is not clear, make a few dispersive passes. 
Remember that downward passes produce and upward 
passes dispel. 

PREVENT SPEAKING NAMES. 

After you have once controlled a subject and you 
want to prevent him from speaking, walk up to him, all 
the time looking him in the eye, and say, "Now you 
can't say your name." After he has tried, you can say 
to him "All right. Now you can say it." Always re- 
member that repetition is what fixes anything on the 
mind. Remember that all hypnotic sleep is produced by 
having the subject to relax his muscles and make him- 
self perfectly passive, and concentrate his mind on sleep. 
'Tis much easier to show than it is to tell the person how 
to hypnotize. But these instructions will tell the meth- 
ods I use, and if followed will be ample for any one to 
learn. Remember that practice makes perfect in all 
things. We now wish to call your attention to how to 
make passes. In producing hypnotic sleep open your 



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hands, with the fingers a little curved; bring them up 
in front of patient's face; draw them down below the 
breast within an inch of the person, and when brought 
down throw away, as though trying to throw off some 
sticky substance. Then bring them up in a circle ? 
with back of hand to subject, or close your hands tight 
as you bring them up. That is to break the connec- 
tion, and it is very essential, for if you were to bring 
your hands up in front of patient you would dispel the 
influence you had produced. At all times, while mak- 
ing passes, keep your eyes on subject, and never let 
your mind wander on any other subject. Always con- 
centrate your mental energies on your work; always be 
careful how you raise your hands in all passes. Never 
make them in contact with the subject, but always 
within an inch or two of person. 

FOR THE CURE OF DISEASES. 

Hypnotism is one of the greatest therapeutic agents 
known, as it puts the patient in a perfectly passive con- 
dition. He is then en rapport with the operator. And 
in that condition everything is harmony. There is not 
a vice but what can be cured by suggestion. Smoking 
cigarettes and morphine habits and all chronic diseases 



WHAT IT IS. 17 



are all amenable to suggestion without question. Sug- 
gestion rules the world. 

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS ON POST HYPNOTIC 
SUGGESTIONS. 

The special instructions we give we hope you will 
not abuse, nor the confidence we place in you in this 
course. Nor do anything that will bring discredit to 
hypnosis or the science of Hypnotism. No one should 
use it for any purpose that would bring discredit to the 
science. The first thing to do before attempting to give 
post hypnotic suggestion is to get the subject in as deep a 
sleep as possible . For this method use my general instruc- 
tions for producing hypnotic sleep. Get the patient in 
as deep a sleep as possible. After getting subject in that 
condition take his left hand in your right; grasp it tight- 
ly. Let your thumb rest on ball of subject's thumb. 
Then your thumb will be resting on median nerve, which 
is a compound nerve, having both sensation and emo- 
tion. Now give your suggestions that on some future 
day the subject will do something, such as going down 
town and getting some trivial thing, or that he will like 
you better. You must give the instructions over and 
over for at least eight or ten times. Always give your 
suggestions in a positive manner, and let the fingers of 



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left hand stroke the subject forward at time of sugges- 
tions. Then say to him that when he awakens he will 
not remember anything you have said to him, but that 
he will follow your suggestions. Never give any sug- 
gestion that would work any hardship on the patient. 
Nor neither should you use this for any immoral pur- 
pose. You can completely change any one's disposition. 
If you wish to change their dispositions, and make them 
more friendly and sociable, tell them they will be more 
lively, and always make the suggestions while they are 
in a deep sleep — the deeper the better. The preceding 
instructions may be applied to any case. You can change 
the wording to suit the case you have to treat. Be care- 
ful never to give any instructions which would work any 
hardship to the patient. Never give these instructions for 
amusement, for the patient will surely carry them out 
and you might injure him by doing so. Remember that 
you have a human mind in your control and that you may 
be changing it for life. You can change any habits you 
see fit to do so. In giving you this we hope that you 
will not use it for any purpose that will bring discredit 
on you or the science. 

HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS. 

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Grasp it tightly, looking him straight in the eyes, or at 
the root of the nose. Take his hand well in yours and 
lean forward when you shake it, with a firm gaze at root 
of nose; then if you wish to make any suggestion to 
him, do so. Never look away from him when you wish 
to impress him with any suggestion you have to make. 
The above instructions we hope will be sufficient to en- 
able any one to practice with success. 



HOW TO PRODUCE CATELEPTIC STATE. 

Commence by putting the patient in a deep sleep — 
it is better to have the patient stand up — and after you 
get him to sleep, tell him that all his muscles are get- 
ting rigid. Repeat it several times, that they are rigid, 
and that his heart will beat normal, but that he can not 
bend any of his body. Always, in giving these instruc- 
tions, make downward passes with both hands, from his 
face down over his breast, throwing away as though 
you were trying to throw off some sticky substance from 
your hands. As mentioned before, you can not be too 
careful in making the passes, as downward passes pro- 
duce, and upward passes disperse, the influence. 
When you wish to remove, or bring the patient out 
from under the influence, tell him to relax his muscles; 



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then you can bring him out from under the influence 
the same as in any other case. 



HOW TO PRODUCE ANAESTHESIA. 

Put the patient in as deep a sleep as possible, then 
give the suggestion that there is no feeling; that his 
arms are dead; that he will feel no pain. Remove the 
influence the same as in other cases of hypnotism. 
Always making dispersive passes to remove the in- 
fluence. 



SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS IN GIVING MY 
RULES FOR PRACTICING HYPNOTISIM. 

I advise the operator to master all the instructions 
given, so he will not have to refer to this work. Al- 
ways have your plan laid out and then follow it. 

Never be influenced by others; for he who has no 
mind of his own cannot influence others. So with 
these instructions, I will bid you adieu. 



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